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    and therefore relate to the texts and also deepen their understanding of the short stories. Two short stories composed by ‘Henry Lawson’ that use techniques and word choice to portray distinctively visuals are ‘The Drover’s Wife’ and ‘In A Dry Season’‚ these two texts are strongly opposite to the visual ‘The English Countryside’ by an unknown composer. Both ‘The Drover’s Wife’ and ‘In A Dry Season’ use distinctive visuals to deepen the responders understanding of place; the situation of the story

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    The Drover

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    The droverThe drover’s wife Summary The story is about a family living out in the bush in Australian. The woman is alone with her kids while her husband is out working. The family is poor and the husband is therefore forced to be away from his family and work. A day normal day one of the children suddenly sees a dangerous snake and the bushwoman get her kids together and make sure the snake won’t have a chance to bite them.  Finally she is able to catch the snake with help from their dog‚ Alligator

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    audiences‚ as illustrated by Henry Lawson in the "Drovers Wife" and "The Loaded Dog". these 2 short stories convey the themes of hardship‚ persistence and mateship by living in tretrous conditions of the environment and surving in them.he uses these distinctively visual elements to provide context‚ create humour‚ describe setting and help communicate and devolop ideas. The Drovers wife shows the harsh landscape of the australian outback through the tough times the drovers wife has to endure by herself

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    12 students. The question posed‚ was “Henry Lawson creates a distinctly visual image of Australia.” Do you agree? I’m going to talk to you about why I agree that Henry Lawson creates a distinctly visual image of Australia in his stories and how he does it. Henry Lawson is a well-known Australian author‚ who has written a number of short stories. Most of his stories are about the harsh conditions‚ in the Australian bush. ‘The Drover’s Wife’‚ one of Lawson’s short stories‚ is about a woman

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    The Two Drovers

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    "The Two Drovers" I cannot relate to the two drovers because it was written in the 1800 hundreds. Since it was written in the 1800 hundreds back then they had to heard cattle for many miles. Another thing would be that they use different word for some things an example would be that they say "His dirk‚ or skene-dhu" which means a black knife. I would not of known what that was and they use some words in a different language. I find this story very confusing and it is something I would not pick

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    transport them to their imagined landscape. This is especially shown through Henry Lawson’s both tragic and comic short stories‚ ‘The Drover’s Wife’ and ‘The Loaded Dog’‚ with his exceptional use of dramatic verbs and juxtaposition and other literary techniques.

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    the techniques grid on the scaffold) Text 1 ‘The Ballad of the Drover’ is a poem written by Henry Lawson in the 1930s. It was sourced from poetry.org on 21/7/12. This poem is in the tradition of the Australian ‘Bush Ballad’ and narrates the story of Harry Dale‚ a young drover who is on his way home when confronted by a flood. Like many poems from this period it glorifies the lifestyle of popular Australian characters like the drover. This poem discusses the concept of the physical obstacles that

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    Henry Lawson Context Sheet – Lawson’s world 1.When and where was Henry Lawson born? Henry Lawson was born on the goldfields in Grenfell on June the 17th 1867. 2.When and where did Henry Lawson die? Henry Lawson died on September the 2nd‚ 1922 in Abbotsford home‚ Sydney. 3.In what years did Henry Lawson write? The Drover’s Wife? - 1892 The Loaded Dog? - 1901 Joe Wilson’s Courtship? - 1901 In a Dry Season? - 1892 4.For what publication did Henry Lawson write for? The bulletin 5. Find

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    In the short story ‘The loaded dog’ the plot concerns 3 gold miners and their dog‚ and the farcical consequences of leaving a bomb cartridge unattended. Henry Lawson shows language features such as adjectives‚ verbs‚ and dialogue‚ metaphors‚ similes‚ humour and graphic descriptions. This story is written in third person. The language used is colloquial and idiomatic‚ for example when he uses the line ‘your dorg’s run orf inter the srub’. Some examples of adjectives he uses in the short story are

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    Meanwhile‚ Mrs. Drover in “The Demon Lover” goes through her road of trials during the recollection of past possessions and the interruption of the life changing letter. First‚ Mrs. Drover must recollect her belongings that she returns for. This task takes an unexpected turn as she encounters much more than she expected. She does take a few items‚ but she does not leave with them‚ therefore‚ she fails. The letter itself prevents her from taking everything home. Second‚ Mrs. Drover tries to find out

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